RESEARCH

Moving Into a Brand-New Marine Science Institute: The List

Previous newsletters have reported on the funding, groundbreaking and construction of GMGI’s new research facility which will be located at 417 Main Street, deeply situated in Gloucester’s inner harbor. Windover Construction has hung fast to the target completion date of September 28.

The next and final step: a complicated collaboration among GMGI staff, Windover Construction, Spry Movers and countless instrumentation field scientists and technicians – all needed to transform this superbly constructed building into a functioning world class research institute.

Besides the normal requirements of moving into a new home (such as turning on electricity and changing the mailing address) the GMGI staff has a more unconventional “to do” list:

2. The 80 freezers with five years of stored cod specimen samples: remove them through storefront-style windows at 55 Blackburn and relocate them in the new facility. Keep cod specimens protected throughout move.